The Scalawags Were

question 29

Multiple Choice

The scalawags were

• A) former slaveholders who opposed the reconstruction governments.
• B) advocates of black rights and black suffrage in the reconstructed southern states.
• C) sharecroppers who constituted the rank-and-file of the new Ku Klux Klan
• D) black southerners who opposed the Republican program of national banking and high protective tariffs.
• E) white southerners who supported the Republicans.

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